Should a High Officer of the Justice Department Support Cop Killers?

One might think the question answers itself.  On the other hand, when a major corporation openly urges its employees to be “less white,” we have entered a world where once obvious answers now seem as fraught as trying to do geometry while you’re on LSD.

President Biden’s nominee to be Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Ms. Kristen Clarke, is on record as carrying the flag for cop killers.  This was not while she was in high school or even college.  It was when she was holding forth at Columbia Law School.  Among others whose cause she championed was Mumia Abu-Jamal, who gunned down Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner 40 years ago and has yet to apologize.

This was not a problem for Ms. Clarke, and evidently is not one for President Biden either.  Paul Mirengoff of PowerLine has the story.

Here’s how it starts:

According to Fox News, Kristen Clarke, Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, organized a conference at which left-wing activists championed cop-killers and backed the freeing of violent criminals. Fox News reports:

According to a previously unseen university transcript obtained by the American Accountability Foundation and given to Fox News, Kristen Clarke was a critical leader and organizer of the controversial Race-ing Justice Conference while she was a student a Columbia Law School in April 1999

The transcript points to Clarke as the event organizer multiple times, as many speakers thanked her and other organizers for bringing the conference together. Clarke was previously reported as only being a contact for the conference.

What was the conference Clarke organized about? It was mainly about freeing cop-killers and radical extremists:

The conference organized left-leaning students and anti-government activists in their shared support of freeing death row inmates, whom they referred to as “political prisoners.” The list included people convicted for a wide array of crimes, including convicted cop-killers Mumia Abu-JamalMutulu ShakurSundiata Acoli, and Tom Manning, in addition to other radical extremists.

The convicted criminals the conference equated to “political prisoners” included Assata Shakur — who was convicted of murdering a New Jersey state trooper, escaped from prison and remains on the FBI’s Most Wanted list — and Susan Rosenberg, who was convicted for transporting multiple illegal firearms and over 740 pounds of explosives.

Rosenberg was also a member of the American communist terrorist group, the May 19th Communist Organization, that bombed the US Capitol on Nov. 7, 1983.

I guess attacks on the Capitol, the “temple of our democracy” — didn’t bother Clarke much back then.